Have you mentored any of your offline friends in this stuff?

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I've showed one friend 'the ropes', and surprisingly he understood it.
I introduced him to many techniques, from forum management to arbitrage.
He just doesn't have the patience to sit and build sites though, nor the money to do so.
 


I have tried with a few friends, one I made him 2 sites one on dog training that was something he was vaguely interested in, the other was a Myspace site. Both sites are sat there, I got his dog site to PR6 and told hime how to sell links, idiot proof so he does not even need to know html just login and put links onto the site through an admin. Myspace site he just left there despite my guidance.

I see it as a waste of time and effort. I think in this game it is something you venture into and for someone to show you it does'nt quite rub off on you, the drive is not there and as the results do not show straight away they move on to something else.
 
It's interesting how many people seem to have shared the same experience mentoring friends. Most of the friends or family who pestered me for help were just looking for easy money and didn't want to do any work. None of them were worth the time or effort.
 
mkrongel said:
I taught my cousin how to do AM stuff, he has been making $XXXX a month since his first month. He ended up teaching a few friends who combined made $XX,XXX last month. 70% of what they made was profit.

I also taught a good friend of mine who hasnt worked for 3 years, he has a baby and is so lazy that he hasnt stuck with it. I also almost hired this friend until i realized it would be hard to fire him, i guess my instincts were right since he hasnt made $1 with AM, i even wrote copy and showed him step by step how to spam something and make $1-$200 a day.

Dont work with friends, if you have doubt about showing someone something, dont. I taught my cousin through AIM in 2 hours, and sent him to WF and said dont ask me anymore questions, figure it out yourself.
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Wanna teach me? :)

I've only taught my mom how to build websites, but nothing about how to monetize them. I don't tell any of my friends about it though.
 
I think most people are either too lazy to do the work or they don't believe you can really make money online.

Over the last few months of my day job, I shared an office with this guy who screwed around online all day long and never did any work. Whenever I worked on my sites at work, I'd show him exactly what I was doing, even showed him step-by-step how I was putting Adsense on one of the sites.

While I sat there learning and building sites, this guy still fooled around on Myspace and IMDB (ugh!) all day long. He was pretty smart and was already using HTML on his Myspace, so I'm sure he would've been able to learn if he'd wanted to.

Should've seen the shocked look on his face when I told him I'd resigned to work online full-time. I guess he didn't believe me even though I was always checking my earnings right in front of him.
 
I don't think any of my friends believe it is possible to make money online - they kind of roll their eyes at me when I talk about it...

Had one friend who was interested for a day or so - but after google wouldn't open up an adsense account since he had no website up I think he gave up.
 
All of my friends think I am an idiot for wanting to quit my job and work online full time. I tried explaining it to one of my friends who is a programmer and he thinks affiliate marketing is nothing but MLM bullshit. So even when friends do understand the technical aspects they aren't always interested even when you do show them how much money can be made.
 
I'd do whatever it took to have someone to guide me in this game. As a web developer I've been developing my own websites for years, but chose the wrong angles to monetize them. In my case, it wasn't a lack of effort, it was a lack of knowlegde business-wise, I got the tech stuff down no probs. I've just been heading in the wrong direction for way too long.

Now, thanks to WF, I'm totally focusing in on arbi and AM and absorbing everything possible to finally earn some damn money.
 
skylark said:
I'd do whatever it took to have someone to guide me in this game. As a web developer I've been developing my own websites for years, but chose the wrong angles to monetize them. In my case, it wasn't a lack of effort, it was a lack of knowlegde business-wise, I got the tech stuff down no probs. I've just been heading in the wrong direction for way too long.

Now, thanks to WF, I'm totally focusing in on arbi and AM and absorbing everything possible to finally earn some damn money.
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Hang in there skylark - I was the same for years I was just building, knocking down and building sites. Making a few $$ here and there, now I make a tidy amount from the same sites and a load more. Patience does pay off in the end. Personally I do not go in for Arbi, I have sites that are there for the long term, also have recently ventured in to products (electronic - not ebooks though).
 
skylark said:
I'd do whatever it took to have someone to guide me in this game. As a web developer I've been developing my own websites for years, but chose the wrong angles to monetize them. In my case, it wasn't a lack of effort, it was a lack of knowlegde business-wise, I got the tech stuff down no probs. I've just been heading in the wrong direction for way too long.

Now, thanks to WF, I'm totally focusing in on arbi and AM and absorbing everything possible to finally earn some damn money.
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Eventually in the end you will likely find that all the dots will connect and what you thought was a waste of time in the beginning was actually very valuable to learn.
 
skylark said:
I'd do whatever it took to have someone to guide me in this game. As a web developer I've been developing my own websites for years, but chose the wrong angles to monetize them.
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I was the same way for many years... but in November I finally replaced my developer hat with a marketer hat and now for December I'm averaging over $500/day. Zoinks!

Like the others said, keep plugging away and you'll eventually find where the fish are biting. If you're in for the long haul, then experience is the best teacher.
 
Friends always see your pockets full, and think its an easy game. But they don't know how tough it can get.

Sure it's a simple overall strategy, but you can't master it. Otherwise we'd all be rolling in money.

When the friends begin to realize that they have to actually work, they stop trying, and bam...you've wasted all your weeks of hard training.

I made the mistake once, and will never, ever, do it again.
 
I don't tell my friends anything about my internet money making. They will start to ask too many questions.
 
my golden rule - ALWAYS keep friends and family out of it.

money can make frienship end.
 
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